Ashish Shukla
Ashish Shukla is a senior journalist and geopolitical analyst based in India, author of ‘How United States Shot Humanity.’ He runs the NewsBred website.
- India seeks to strengthen relationships with Iran and Russia as US-made chaos threatens New Delhi
India has not quite switched sides in the Middle East, but today’s visit from two important guests from Russia and Iran could spell a diplomatic change of course for India in 2020 and beyond. - Troubled skies: US killing of Soleimani puts India on guard against rogue dronesIndia is scrambling to keep its skies safe after the US breached the sovereignty of its “friend” Iraq by carrying out an illegal drone attack which killed, among others, Iran’s top military commander, General Qassem Soleimani.
- The Chaos Guru: What's so exceptional about the US that it can tell New Delhi what arms to buy to defend itself?I was seven when the US sent its Seventh Fleet to the Bay of Bengal to scare India during the 1971 Indo-Pak War. Today it's making a similar growl, of a financial kind, to freeze India from buying Russia's S-400 missile system.
- Digging up the buried last Sikh emperor and reclaiming a ‘looted’ heritage by the British colonialistsA demand has been made in the Indian parliament to exhume and return the remains of the last Sikh emperor.
- Gassed to death: Bhopal tragedy is hard for India to live down even after 35 yearsIt has been 35 years since the Bhopal disaster struck India and claimed 20,000 lives, but its legal, moral, and historical lessons are relevant to this day – and holds an answer for the nation to come to terms with its trauma.
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